Monday, June 21, 2010

It's "god," not "God."

Bloomberg reports:

Anadarko Asks Court to Cancel Rig Contract Over Ban (Update1) By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins

June 21 (Bloomberg) -- Anadarko Petroleum Corp. asked a court to cancel its contract leasing an offshore oil rig from Noble Corp., claiming a U.S. six-month ban on deepwater drilling triggered a “force majeure,” or act of God, provision.

First, they shouldn't capitalize "God" when they're talking about Obama, who is responsible for the moratorium on drilling that prompted this suit.

Now then, as to the unintended consequences of his latest "act," not only will a strategic resource not be produced, and not only will more jobs be lost, in addition to myriad as yet unforeseen consequences, the legal system will be further overburdened by suits for which there was no reason prior to this "act of god".

But at least the lawyers will be busy. What's that joke about sharks and "professional courtesy"?

"awaiting moderation" on Archbishop Dolan's blog...

Being, as it is, in such opposition to yet another of the Archbishop's platitudes (this one about opposition to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero), we doubt it will make the cut, so we post it here:

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June 21, 2010 at 12:29 pm

“What is not acceptable is to prejudge any group, or to let fear and bias trump the towering American (and for us Catholics, the religious) virtues of hospitality, welcome, and religious freedom,” the Archbishop wrote.

It is well and good for us to be admonished against forsaking virtue, but we can’t be forbidden from feeling something very amiss in the mere pawning of that which was built by the blood, sweat and tears of the Church to those who look forward to her demise. We needn’t be chastised as disobedient children for a visceral recoiling from extending those virtues to those who have declared and demonstrated their opposition to them.

Let the Archbishop be reminded that it isn’t Catholics who have gone about knocking down things that tower in America.